File - An armed soldier walks past a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
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Top Nigerian cop suspended over suspected sect member escape
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Nigerian authorities on Tuesday suspended a top police officer for alleged negligence in the escape of a suspected member of the Islamist Boko Haram sect arrested over a deadly Christmas bomb attack. The principal suspect, Kabiru Sokoto, who was arrested on Saturday, was handed over to a police commissioner for further investigation. He was then...
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks up at a branch office of her National League for Democracy party during its opening ceremony Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Suu Kyi registers as candidate in Myanmar by-election
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi registered on Wednesday to run for a seat in parliament in April 1 by-elections, in the latest sign of change in the military-dominated country. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was released from years of house arrest in late 2010, submitted her registration form to election authorities to stand in a...
The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.
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Cruise captain under house arrest
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Italian judges have put under house arrest the captain of a cruise ship that crashed into rocks on Friday. Prosecutors say Francesco Schettino caused the crash and also fled the Costa Concordia while passengers were still stranded. A recording of a call between Capt Schettino and a port official after the crash appears to support this, though Capt...
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a photograph provided by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team, a woman holds her severely malnourished young child in a camp for internally displaced people in the Somali capital Mogadishu 15 July. While visiting the camp to provide humantarian assistance to recently arrived people displaced by the severe drought currently affecting many parts of the country and the wider Horn of Africa region, African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) peacekeepers from Uganda evacuated more than 10 severely malnourished children by armoured personnel carrier who were in need of emergency medical attention and relocated them to their medical facility at their operational headquarters in the Somali capital. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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Late famine response 'cost lives'
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Thousands of lives and millions of pounds were lost needlessly because of a "dangerous delay" in the response to the East Africa famine, a report has found. A "culture of risk aversion" meant the international community failed to take decisive action on early warnings, causing a six-month setback in the relief effort. Leading...
Italian naval divers approach the cruise ship Costa Concordia in the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.
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Divers blast rescue hole in Italian cruise ship
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January 17, 2012 -- Updated 1128 GMT (1928 HKT) The Italian Coast Guard has released photos of the rescue effort at the cruise ship Costa Concordia near Giglio Island, Italy. On Tuesday January 17, Warrant Petty Officer Massimo Macaroni of the Italian Coast Guard said the casualty count from the disaster stood at six dead, and 29 missing: 25...
Mourners lift the flag-draped casket of Sayed Hashim Saeed, 15, an anti-government protester who was killed during clashes with riot police, onto a vehicle for his funeral procession Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in the Shiite Muslim village of Sitra, Bahrain.
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Caskets of Violence and State, Be Not Proud
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Article by WN. com Correspondent Dallas Darling As thousands of mourners tried to march to the cemetery, explosions and bombs muffled and drowned out "God is greatest" and "Down with Hamad." Another funeral procession, this one honoring a teenager who had been killed by Bahraini security forces, had been disrupted. During a peaceful protest, police...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, seated right, and Liberian Vice President Joseph N. Boakai, seated left, attend Sirleaf's second presidential inauguration at the Capitol in Monrovia Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.
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Liberia's Sirleaf takes presidential oath in land of hope
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Monrovia: Liberia's Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been sworn in a lavish USD 1.2 million ceremony and called for reconciliation after her reelection in disputed polls divided the nation. With US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in attendance, the 73-year-old grandmother took the oath administered by the country's Chief Justice...
Occupy Olympia protester Dana Walker wears a sign that says "I can't afford a lobbyist, so I got this tent," as he demonstrates outside the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. on the opening day of the 2012 session of the Washington state Legislature, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.
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The Wealth Gap - Inequality in Numbers
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Until protestors took to the streets last year, first in New York and then in financial centres across the world, inequality had been a low-key issue. Not any more. With the political temperature rising, a stream of new analysis is...
In this underwater photo taken on Jan. 13 and released by the Italian Coast Guard Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 a scuba diver swims next to the cruise ship Costa Concordia, after it ran aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy.
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Missing raised to 29 in Italian cruise disaster
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Italy’s cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis on Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales. The ship’s owner accused the jailed captain of causing the wreck that...
In this Sept. 2, 2009 file picture the Euro sculpture is see in front of the European Central Bank ECB in Frankfurt, central Germany.
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S&P downgrades Eurozone bailout fund to AA+
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BRUSSELS — Rating company Standard & Poor's said Monday that it has downgraded the creditworthiness of the Eurozone's rescue fund one notch to AA+, putting the fund's ability to raise cheap bailout money at risk. The downgrade follows ratings cuts for formerly AAA-rated France and Austria, whose financial guarantees were key to the...
Facing renewed pressure to release his tax returns, Republican presidential candidate Mitt...
A recording of a conversation between the coastguard and the captain of the Costa...
Where the aid has gone in Haiti, why the international community dragged its feet on Somalia...
 
Pedestrians pass by graffiti on wall during a protest against austerity measures in Athens on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011.
A group of hedge funds is threatening to block a last-ditch attempt to save Greece from defaulting on its huge debt pile, unless they are guaranteed a significant payout. There will be a final attempt today - when a group representing Greece's...
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Chinese investors smile as they look at the stock price monitor at a private security company Wednesday Jan. 23, 2008 in Shanghai, China. Chinese stocks bounced in volatile trading Wednesday, with Shanghai's benchmark rebounding and then dipping to a five-month low before ending the day higher. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 143.29 points, or 3.1 percent, to 4703.05. The index dipped to as low as 4,510.50 during the day. (js1)
Marc Chandler Marc Chandler is the head of global currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman. Recent Posts Great Graphic: Government Debt in Europe Euro and S&P 500 Correlations Revisited Correction Tuesday? Great Graphic: Made in...
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New Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos stands after his statements outside the presidential palace in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011.
ATHENS — Taking direct aim at hedge funds and other private holders of Greece’s debt, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos says he will consider legislation forcing the creditors to take losses on their holdings if no agreement can be reached...
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Vietnam War memorial in the new Chinatown in Houston, Texas In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention.[180] As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted "first, we didn't know ourselves.
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 3:31 pm Opinion: Mitchel Cohen Why I oppose the Vietnam War by January 15, 2012 January 15, 2012 marked what would have been Dr. King's 83rd birthday. The airwaves are filled with timid and nostalgic tributes to the great...
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From left, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso participate in a media conference after an EU summit of eurogroup members at the EU Council building in Brussels on Thursday, July 21, 2011.
With all the political developments in the Middle East, the looming economic disaster in the euro-zone, and even the growing financial strain and stubbornly high unemployment in America, many have been eying the Mayan calendar’s mysterious...
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 24, 2008 file photo, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo, introduces APT from Yahoo! at a news conference in New York.
SAN FRANCISCO: Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! nearly 17 years ago and had an ill-fated stint as chief executive, resigned on Tuesday from all of his positions with the struggling Internet company. Yang, 43, one of the original dotcom billionaires,...
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NGC 602 and N90 as seen by Hubble Space Telescope's ACS. NGC 602 is the designation for a particular young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way. Radiation and shock waves from the star cluster has pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that compose the nebula known as N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges (or "elephant trunks") of the nebula.
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet HOUSTON: Milky way after all is milky in colour for sure! Scientists have revealed that our galaxy is aptly named Milky Way as it looks white, the colour of fresh snow in the early morning....
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